Public Spending Details for 2010

Spending Units: By default, public spending is displayed in billions of pounds. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of pounds, percent of GDP, percent of central government spending, and percent of total spending.

Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current HM Treasury fiscal year. But you can select any year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. You can increase or decrease the year using the yr text links in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in 0 are shown. Select a year to get close, then select the year you want.

UK or Country/Region: By default, the table shows values for all spending in the United Kingdom. But you can select individual countries by selecting the country dropdown control in the table heading.

Pie Chart: You can select a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for central government, local authority, and overall spending/revenue.

HM Treasury PESA Year: By default, the table displays planned and outturn public spending in the current HM Treasury PESA. But you can look at previous planned numbers using the dropdown control at the bottom of the table.

Bar Chart: Click on a chart icon to display a bar chart. There are chart icons along the base of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the chart columns. There are also chart icons along the right edge of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the table rows.

[+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers on public spending.

The table shows overall public spendingcentral government and local authoritiesin the United Kingdom for
the specified fiscal year. Government expenditure totals are aggregated for each major government
function.

All outlays for British public spending prior to 2011 are
outturn.
More recent spending, including future years out to 2015, are
estimated outturn,
planned, or
guesstimated.

Public sector expenditure between 1992 through 2015 is based on Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (PESA)
function or subfunction data published by HM Treasury.

You can use controls on the table to change the year or to drill down to view
more detailed spending information. You can also view the spending data as percent of
Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Click the button at the right of each line of the table to display a bar chart of public spending in Britain.
Click a button at the base of each column for a bar chart or pie chart.
You can right click on the chart image to copy and paste it into your own content. Click
the image to close the chart display.

Notes

Outturn vs. Plan:
Public spending data in ukpublicspending.co.uk includes public spending outturns and also future spending in
three categories: estimated outturn, planned, and guesstimated.
Records of recent spending are more detailed than historical
records of earlier times.

Public Spending Updates:
The current numbers are based on HM Treasurys PESA for 2011. The next update will be made after the PESA 2012 is published in late spring or summer 2012.

Data Sources for 2010:

PESA 2015 Update

On July 20, 2015, HM Treasury published its Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2015. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses the PESA tables of public spending at the "sub-function" level as its major data source for UK public spending.ukpublicspending.co.uk has now updated its spending tables using data from PESA 2015. The update includes outturn spending data for 2014-15, and plans data for 2015-16. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses PESA's Table 6.4 for Central Government expenditure, Table 7.4 for Local Authority expenditure, and Table 8.3 for Public Corporation capital expenditure.Since HM Treasury does not provide plans estimates for Local Authority spending, ukpublicspending.co.uk provides "guesstimates" instead. This is done by extending the percentage increase in spending between 2013-14 and 2014-15 for each sub-function for the plans year. It is assumed that local authority spending reductions will not carry through to plans years.Country and Region spending has been updated up to 2013-14. These are obtained from Chapters 9 and 10 in the PESA document.

We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.
E. G. West, Education and the State